Jan 3, 2023
Public sector organisation in India to develop compressed biogas plant
Biomass News
Dec 22, 2022
Each year, Indonesia produces about 100 million tonnes of the rice straw, and around 60% of this waste is burned in open fields, causing air pollution which has been linked to higher rates of lung cancer.
The amount burned releases enough energy, if it could be harnessed, to power Indonesia’s households 10 times over.
A research consortium which includes Aston... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 22, 2022
The biomass facility that powers Fort Drum in New York, US, is set to close early next year, reported WWNY. The unit employs over two dozen people directly, and it supports dozens of logging and trucking jobs in the north country.
ReEnergy buys wood chips from local lumber yards and sawmills, transfers them into energy, and generates 100% of Fort Drum’s power, a rarity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 21, 2022
The state-owned West Bengal Power Development Company Ltd (WBPDCL) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) in India have both failed in sourcing biomass pellets after no vendors participated in the tenders floated by them, reported Energy World.
West Bengal's thermal power plants are unable to comply with the Union power minister's 5% biomass co-firing mandate due to a lack... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 21, 2022
The preliminary results of a recent study show that the utilisation of forest residues for bioenergy will have a positive climate effect until 2050, according to Bioenergy Europe.
The report takes into account the fact that these residues would otherwise be left in the forests and would decay. Taking into consideration, decay shows that bioenergy from forest residues... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 20, 2022
LG Chem and GS EPS will jointly invest 320 billion won (€234.6 million) in the construction of a biomass facility at its Yeosu plant in South Jeolla.
The two companies signed a formal contract on 15 December, six months after they entered heads of agreement.
The biomass plant will be named "Yeosu Green Power" and it is planned to begin commercial operation in the first... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 19, 2022
The European Parliament has voted in favour of faster approval deadlines for new renewable energy installations, with a view to the law being finalised in 2023, following talks with EU member states, reported Edie.
The REpowerEU package seeks to enhance the union's energy independence, and the proposal was put forward by the European Commission on 18 May 2022.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 16, 2022
Hau Giang Bioenergy Joint Stock Company (HBE) held a ceremony for a biomass plant that uses rice husk as fuel, and which has received a total investment of 875 billion VND (€34.3 million) in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on 15 December.
HBE director Truong Ngoc Thuy Trang said that the Hau Giang Biomass Power Plant Project, with a capacity of 2x10 MW, is... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2022
Danone has announced the commissioning of a biomass boiler at the company’s spray drying plant located at Balclutha, in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island.
Combined with the use of 100% renewable electricity at the plant, CO2 emissionsare expected to be reduced by 95%, helping underpin Danone’s ambition to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050.
Danone’s... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 14, 2022
The governments of Ontario and Canada are investing more than $11.3 million (€10.6m) to expand CHAR Technologies’ facility in Thorold to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) and biocarbon – creating the largest facility of its kind in Canada. It will be the only RNG facility in the country to exclusively use woody biomass. Expanding CHAR’s Thorold facility will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 13, 2022
The Romande Energie Group, which owns the Enerbois biomass plant in Rueyres (Vaud canton), Switzerland, has announced it is expanding in this field by investing in Proxipel - a start-up offering a solution producing pellets from biomass material.
Biomass is a useful source of clean energy for advancing the energy transition that is so vital for
The Enerbois plant in... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 12, 2022
A new £4.8M project funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to increase biomass crops grown in the UK, will launch at Low Carbon Agriculture Show at the NAEC, Stoneleigh, on 7 February 2023.
Biomass Connect is a new initiative that intends to showcase best-practice and innovations in biomass feedstock production at sites across the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2022
A European-Union (EU)-imposed ban on imports of woody biomass from Russia has resulted in a seven-fold spike in Turkey's exports of wood pellets to EU Member States.
This has caused concern that the bulk could be recertified material from Russia, Montel reported.
The embargo was imposed in April 2022 as part of the EU's fifth round of sanctions against Russia. At that... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 6, 2022
Sumitomo Heavy Industries has secured an order from Tosoh Corporation for a 74 MW-class wood biomass and recycled fuel-fired boiler, for the planned construction site at its Nanyo Complex in Shunan City - based on the engineering, procurement and construction contract.
This facility is a boiler for a biomass power plant toward energy decarbonisation that is planned by... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 5, 2022
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been criticised by over 600 scientists across the world for the UK's use of bioenergy, in a letter that said the practice is destroying the "lungs of the earth", with "devastating impacts" on forests.
Bioenergy divides scientific opinion due to the procuring of biomass, which can involve cutting down trees to turn into energy.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 28, 2022
The Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) ministry has written to the National Industrial Classification (NIC) cell under the development commissioner (DC) office for "necessary action" of including biomass pellet manufacturing under NIC codes. It also said portable petrol pumps and drone manufacturing should be included.
The Financial Express reported that... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 25, 2022
Evolving cleantech and gold mine development company Minnova Corp. is pleased to announce positive biomass gasification test results and other business development opportunities.
It reported positive gasification test results for corn stover from Romania and Pineapple waste from Costa Rica, with over 50% H2 content in syngas achieved. Following on from that, it has identified... [Read More]
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